Dancers entered the stage and joined him as he proceeded to showcase his signature moves. “I have eight sounds,” he said, as he started voicing them out, with the dancers as eight corresponding dancers acted as visual cues.
When he belted all eight sounds together, he and the dancers moved and grooved on stage. “Let’s dance!” he called, dropping the bass.
Neil took pride in saying that beatbox, to him, is a medicine. “It can cure loneliness,” he said.[]
The crowd went wild in approval.
In an interview last November, the 19-year-old junior business administration student from Holy Cross of Davao College said that he discovered his talent in the bathroom when he was young.
Tuesday Vargas was impressed at how the young beatboxer upped the ante in his performance. When Neil auditioned, he impressed the judges by playing with five sounds. This increased to six in the season finale and then eight in the grand finals.
Charice said that she learned a lot after watching Neil perform. “Iba talaga ang galing ng Pinoy,” she said.[]
